Guests staying at the Hard Rock Punta Cana resort will no longer have access to the minibar for liquor.
That says it all - no natural causes.....
My guess is their liquor was tainted, or they fear a lawsuit if anyone finds tainted booze in the minibar.
Booze is so cheap in USA, that anyone wanting to kill themselves by drinking has more than ample opportunity to do so.
For our non-USA members, I can go to a local grocery store and $9.99 will buy a cheap bottle of 1.75 Liter of Vodka
We will probably pass on DR. We have been there before but as others have said, we have choices.
If we want a quickie last minute seven night AI it will be Cuba or Mexico.
I meant I don’t believe all those deaths were natural causes.
Good point, because Mexico and Cuba are so much safer...
And parts of the USA where you could be hit by a random bullet or a texter driven car, or
Hold my beer.or run into Florida Man.
And parts of the USA where you could be hit by a random bullet or a texter driven car, or
Some 27,500 people were murdered in Mexico last year. That’s more than Colombia and Venezuela—combined. It’s more than twice the number of murders in China, and nearly twice the number in the US. In fact, it’s more than every other country in the world save for Brazil and India.
But the most alarming fact about the homicides that occurred in Mexico last year is that a paltry 523 have resulted in a sentence, according to a new report from Mexico’s central statistics bureau (INEGI). That means 98% of the 27,500 murders in Mexico last year went unsolved.
In two Mexican states, Hidalgo and Tlaxcala, not a single homicide case resulted in a sentence, and in some of the country’s most violent states, the numbers are only marginally better. In San Luis Potosi, 99.6% of homicide cases have not been resolved; in Sinalao, 99.2%; in Chihuahua, 98.3%. Even in the state with the highest rate of sentencing, Mexico’s Federal District, 81.4% of murders still remained unsolved.
https://qz.com/105952/98-of-murders-in-mexico-last-year-went-unsolved/
At least in the USA, we have a better crime solvability ratio. In Mexico, 98% of murders go unsolved.
Stay out of about 6 major cities in the USA and your chance of getting involved in a shooting crime is next to nil.
As someone that used to go there every year, and my mother actually lived there for a while, I would never go there again.
So solvability correlates to chances of getting shot to death?
In the U.S., I am most worried about shooters that are seeking mass murder and WANT to get caught.
I would worry more about getting struck by lighting. You have a much better chance at that.
I believe that it comes down to where you travel.
Clearly there are areas in Mexico that are not safe. We would not go to those areas. But the same could be said for areas in North American cities.
Not quite So....
The odds of being hit by lightening is about anywhere from 1in 161k to 1 in 1.1m
Death by Accidental Firearm Discharge: 1 in 6.9k
Death by Assault by firearm 1 in 370
The odds will differ based on where one looks but it is definitely a lot less that being struck by lightening.